THE NEW YORKER Here's the place to find joyously different papers for individual DRISTMAS GREETINGS and "'RAPPINGS For 1'óur Individual Greeting Cards . .. Unprinted cards and envel- opes made of interesting papers that you can't find anywhere else . .. suitable for your own block printing. . . Fascinating decorative papers in gold and silver, gor- geous colors, patterns that are quaint. . . modernistic. . . dainty or odd, as your heart desires... .. . And to Make Your Packages smart and individual. . . wrap- pings, tyings that will make your friends exclaim with delight and wonder at your originality. . . from the far comers of the earth .. .Japan, Korea, China, France, Austria, Sweden. . . in colors of a gorgeous loveliness" fascinating patterns, amusing pictorial de- signs. . . Come and see all this Christmas Magic while the stock is complete at our Retail Dept. Japan Paper ompaDY 109 E. 31st St.. New York ity William McF ee says of AS WE WERE A VICTORIAN PEEP SHOW By E. F. BENSON HAn ideal book for a guest chamber. Guests who do not enjoy it can be left out of all future invita' tions. They have failed in an infallible test of urbanity and intelligence , $4.00 LONGMANS GEORGE MABARDI Backgammon TUITION .... ACCESSORIES WIC. 1272 to be used to point out any great trends in literature, cultural tendencies, or whatnot, so the best thing to do, I imagine, is just to start right in on them. The most important, historic lly at any rate, is John Masefield's new book, "The Wanderer of Liverpool," his first since he became Poet Laureate. The Wanderer was that queer ship, one of the last of the British clippers, which killed her captain on her maiden voyage, and went about for some years thereafter, always at storm centres, dropping sailors from her yardarms, drowning others. The major portion of the book is a precise history of her unlucky career, in prose except for two passages in long pentameters, unrhym- ed, celebrating her first voyage and her last, in which she was sunk in Ham- burg harbor . It is dry reading for the most part, very dry, and Mr. Mase- fi eld m ust have had some reason for making it so: obviously, he is too cap- able a writer not to have seen greater possibilities in all these stormy adven- tures. Toward the end of the story, he regrets having said things in previous writings which might have increased the hard-luck legends which grew about the Wanderer. It may be that, con- scious of a new responsibility as Lau- reate, he published this factual narrative to make amends. Following it, there are a masque and a number of short- er verses, including several sonnets- gentle, but not very thoughtful, regrets for the old days of sailing ships. T HERE are two other books, hav- ing more or less to do with the sea. One is "When Ships Were Ships," by Captain William Morris Barnes, an aged mariner now domiciled at Sailors' Snug Harbor. Mrs. Hilda Renbold Wortman (the wife of Denys Wort- man, the artist, by the way) came across him one day sitting in Abingdon Square and got him to tell the story of his life into a dictaphone, from which the book was transcribed. You may about now begin feeling sorry fot the poor old fellow, run afoul of the publishing racket in the evening of his days, and forced to come across with all he can think of in the way of read- ing matter, but after mature consid- eration I don't see why you should. On the other hand, of course, I don't see why you shouldn't. Anyway, those old fellows like to talk, and can be worth listening to at times. By the (, . ...." ':/ , . I . f ;i , 99 Is an OLD SPANISH CUSTO Æ ', ' :: H. ,::( *'\ ,,, '.. Æ 1\ ',\ '" ..', "'::-:;' .' ,.. ifi :'\,. /2;' <" ",'. ,,' :. .,:.:' .':.' ,//:..,... - 'j: ' ' ;, ,;-<; . 4fti :'".. _- .:--: :...:-.,,-.. :.: -.. : ., 't:: , .fr ' # l. ' "':; ."" -.. ,.ft% < - ,.,,:::: :,: \ "",:::,: ,,-. " :': ,: ,: tilT' . :-, " ;4 ' c!/ <:; ::;'::;,-_,,:::.:.:>>::::::> :.:.. (".---:} ., '",#i,:y .:' '.. .y. :::::-4 Eating, we mean-an old Spanish custom that includes good food, pleasingly served amid picturesque surroundings. p But really, this custom is not exclu- sively confined to the tanned sons and daughters of Spain - as you may discover for yourself if you will drop in for an after-theatre meal at our beautiful Spani.sh Garden in the Savoy Plaza Hotel Annex. There you will find yourself sur- rounded by many adherents of this quaint old Spanish custom - smart round-the-towners who appreciate good food, served in an atmosphere gently reminiscent of beautiful Alhambra and gay Seville. I · I, ; SPANISH GARDEN SAVOY-PLAZA HOTEL ANNEX 58th to 59th Streets Just east of Fifth Avenue